Shakespeare and Religious Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Shakespeare and Religious Change....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors....Pages 17-36
‘In a Christian Climate’: Religion and Honor in Richard II....Pages 37-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion....Pages 63-87
The Queen’s Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich....Pages 88-109
Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare’s Plays....Pages 110-132
Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
‘Mirth in Heaven’: Religion and Festivity in As You Like It....Pages 153-175
Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare’s Troubled Ministers....Pages 176-195
Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?....Pages 196-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare’s Histories....Pages 217-237
The Secular Theater....Pages 238-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-281